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Mar 24, 2013 at 14:01

With an astronomic and ever growing debt and derivatives overhang, there are essentially only two choices for the world economy. One is to deal with it head on, which would…

Mar 24, 2013 at 13:59

Although silver's long-term charts are more messy and difficult of interpretation than gold's, on its long-term 7-year chart we can see that it, like gold, is getting close to a…

Mar 23, 2013 at 16:43

It used to be that March Madness was about the best basketball at the college level. Now it is about "Bankers Gone Wild!" If Cyprus is not the final nail…

Mar 23, 2013 at 16:42

Last week, the Fed kept the monetary policy unchanged, but might reduce quantitative easing 3 (QE3) sometimes this year. In reality, investors are focusing on Cyprus, where another chapter of…

Mar 23, 2013 at 08:27

The market paused last week without sustaining any significant technical damage. The pause could last a little longer, but new index highs are likely in the near future. I expect…

Mar 23, 2013 at 08:26

A lot has been written already about the Cyprus fiasco, but we believe one more angle should be considered: that episode gave us only a little taste of what to…

Mar 23, 2013 at 08:24

Our core scenario is that we still need one more high in order to finish the current advance (should be less than one week from now). Thereafter, a powerful setback…

Mar 22, 2013 at 20:24

Actually, it was probably time for a new approach in dealing with the troubled debtors. I think the Germans and the "northern" countries come out of this experience with new…

Mar 22, 2013 at 19:12

Sentiment isn't typically used so much for timing the equity market as for gauging the overall mood of the market. When the mood of market participants is too bearish, we…

Mar 22, 2013 at 19:10

TLT (weekly) - did a runaway* weekly gap in early April 2012 that started SPX's correction with a couple of hundred points swiftly into June 2012. We just have a…